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Being in Rome and missing the Spanish Stairs is like eating soup without a salt. What brings all this people here, what is so magnetic in this stairs making both, locals and tourists, to gather here all day and long in the night? Once you get here makes you to stay for a while, to sit down and watch the people around, smiling with them for no reason, being in good moods and sharing drinks and food with those next to you. Leave a Comment
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 Spanish Steps by bugalugs
Standing facing the steps is the house which is now a Museum to Shelley and Keats and where they lived at one time.
There is information about Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Lord Byrom in the museum.
Opening hours:
9am - 1pm - 2.30pm-5.30pm
Monday - Friday
Entrance fee is payable.
Its not really my fonest memory, but it seems whenever I have visited Rome, I seem to spend time sitting on these steps putting sticking plasters (bandaid) on my sore feet!!! The last time in November 2000, it had rained and the steps were damp so I sat on a carrier bag to protect my rear end from getting wet!!! :-)
Just thought I would share that with you all -lol Leave a Comment
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 The Spanish Steps by steph4867
Rome went all out to spruce up for 2000, and when you visit in 2002, you'll benefit from all those improvements made at the end of the 20th century. For the Jubilee, decades' worth of grime from car exhaust and other pollution was scrubbed from the city's facades, revealing the original glory of the Eternal City (though Rome could still stand even more work on this front), and ancient treasures like the Colosseum were shored up. Many of the most popular areas (such as the Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navona) are sparkling and inviting again.
Whether they're still time-blackened or newly gleaming, the city's ancient monuments are a constant reminder that Rome was one of the greatest centers of Western civilization. In the heyday of the Empire, all roads led to Rome, and with good reason. It was one of the first cosmopolitan cities, importing slaves, gladiators, great art, and even citizens from the far corners of the world. Despite its carnage and corruption, Rome left a legacy of law; a heritage of great art, architecture, and engineering; and an uncanny lesson in how to conquer enemies by absorbing their cultures.
But ancient Rome is only part of the spectacle. The Vatican has had a tremendous influence on making the city a tourism center. Although Vatican architects stripped down much of the city's glory, looting ancient ruins for their precious marble, they created great Renaissance treasures and even occasionally incorporated the old into the new--as Michelangelo did when turning the Baths of Diocletian into a church. And in the years that followed, Bernini adorned the city with the wonders of the baroque, especially his glorious fountains. Leave a Comment
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 View from top of Spanish Steps by rachel_sunLeave a Comment
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 by rachel_sun
Especially around all those wonderful shops;) Leave a Comment
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 My friends and I in Piazza
Spagna by pili
In the upper part of the stairs, there is a church - Trinitá dei Monti -, and bottom of the stairs you can see a fountain: "Della Barcaccia" (Fountain of the Old Boat), designed by Bernini´s father, that compared to the other fountains in the city isn´t attractive at all.-
Lugar de reunión de los turistas. Es un clásico sentarse en sus escaleras y desde allí observar la Vía Condotti – la más exclusiva arteria comercial de Roma -. En su parte superior se encuentra la Iglesia de la Trinitá dei Monti y al pié de la escalera hay una fuente – La Fontana della Barcaccia – que comparada con las restantes fuentes de Roma es, a mi criterio, no muy bella.- Leave a Comment
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 by zheyy
(More pics are in Travelogue ^^)
I guess the first time I knew it was from the movie 'Holiday in Rome'. I do have bunches of imagination about it...
That day when I strolled in Rome with my friend, I was almost lost. We walked through narrow alleys again and again, - actually I enjoyed experiencing Rome by this way: with no definite destination, just to encounter everything by chance.
It was dusk, we were going along a street and saw the beautiful sunset just performacing on the front end of this road. We started to run and wanted to catch the amazing shot. However, the road seemed too long, also because after one-day walking, my feet were so painful.
I couldn't run fast, just kept going. The sky turned darker little by little.
'Running, hi, don't give up.'my friend encouraged me.
I know many beautiful moments may only come once, you can never expect when to meet them again.
Anyhow we got to highest place of the road before the end of sunset. I realized right that moment I was in Spanish Square!
Lots of people were there enjoying the scene. I leaned by the rail, thinking I might say THANKS to sunset because it waited for me.
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 by Tetreus
It was made to be the Spanish ambassay ( that's why it has it's name ) at the Holy Chair.
In the past it was loved by artists and Grand Tour travelers,specially English people, that's why it had also the nickname ' English Getto'.
Tennyson, Byron, Liszt, Wagner, Stendhal, Rubens, Balzac and Keats lived here.
The most beautiful time to visit these steps is in juni or july.
The steps are full with flowers, azalea's, Leave a Comment
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